Francis Barton Gummere

Francis Barton Gummere (1855–1919) was born at Burlington, New Jersey, studied at Haverford College, Harvard and Freiburg, and from 1887 was professor of English at Haverford College.

He is best known as a scholar: The Anglo-Saxon Metaphor (1881), A Handbook of Poetics (1885) and Germanic Origins (1892).